when you walk up to someone and you ask if you can show some magic, what's your opening trick ? Sometimes when I offer some magic, people are not quite sure what I want, in their eyes I could ask for money or I could be just some kind of freak. So I think it's important to quickly convince them that I can do something special. Do you usually start with an complete trick which might take a few minutes or do you start with some kind of flourish or card change to show immediately that you can handle cards ?

I use 3/4 Across from On the Spot with Gregory Wilson. It's a very magical, visual, and clever coins across trick where 3 ordinary quarters fly from your left fist to your right open-palmed hand. It uses nothing but 3 ordinary quarters, which is good because people are familiar with those and will feel more comfortable.

when you walk up to someone and you ask if you can show some magic, what's your opening trick ? ...

Well that is your first mistake. You never approach people unless you have a camera crew and they are paid actors like Blaine and Angel. You set up your pitch and have them come to you. Once you get a minimum of 5 people start your sidewalk show. If you are going to do a circle show don't start until you get at least 20.

ambitious card is so incredibly underrated. I normally go with that, if not a 2CM. The great thing about the 2CM being your first effect is you still have the spectator's trust that what you say you're doing is what you're actually doing, which is key in that effect.

If I'm strolling I will walk up to someone with a deck of cards in my hand, and ask if they would like to see something unusual, but kind of cool. They usually tell me my shoe is untied. I appologize, excuse myself as I ask them to hold the deck of cards. I then perform STS. From there the opening is created and I am able to perform a few tricks. Sometimes the deck I give them to hold is an invisible deck, so I go straight into that.

I never really thought about that. I would probably do disintegration. Where a spectator picks a card. and the magician takes ashes and on to the spectators arm and the value and suit of the card appears in ash on their own arm.

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